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Natural Light Portraits Made Easy With The Sun and Umbrella

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 Hi, this is Jay P. Morgan. Today on The Slanted Lens I’m going to show you something that I do often when I’m shooting outside in direct sun and I don’t want to have to use my strobe, my FJ400, or I don’t have my FJ400. Then I go directly to a shoot through […]

Stunning One Light Portraits With Umbrellas

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In this tutorial we show you how to use umbrellas to do one light studio portraits. Umbrellas are the ultimate bounce modifier. We talk about why use them, how to use them, the quality of light you get from seven foot translucent diffusion, black/white and black/silver umbrellas. Hi, this is Jay P. Morgan. Today on […]

Best Every Day Photo & Video Tool

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Here are 3 types of tools that are the best every day photo tool that every photographer and videographer should have. I use it every day and it is a very important tool for attaching and taking off plates from cameras and tripods. I carry it with me all the time! Watch the video and […]

Number One Tip For Filming or Photographing People Outside In Direct Sun

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 Hi, This is Jay P. Morgan. Today on The Slanted Lens, in the Laws of Light, we’re going to take a look at my number one tip for shooting outside. It works every single time. It gives you great images. Here’s what I’m going to do. I’m going to put her back towards the […]

One Light Portraits Using Bounce Light For Stills & Video

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 Hi, this is Jay P. Morgan. Today on the Laws of Light we’re going to take a look at bounce light. What is bounce light? We use bounce light all the time in photography. Whether it’s bounce light for a fill, whether it’s bounce off the concrete, when you’re shooting outside you use bounce […]

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